Melanie Baskind, Women’s Soccer

Sep 26, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Melanie Baskind
has been named the Harvard COOP Athlete of the Week for Sept. 26.
Baskind led the Crimson women’s soccer team to two victories
last week.

In Harvard’s Ivy League opener, Baskind scored both goals
for the Crimson in a 2-0 win over Penn Sept 23. The Framingham,
Mass., native scored after a cross from Peyton Johnson at 13:02
before adding her team-high seventh goal of the year on another
Johnson assist at 24:42.

Baskind contributed her 13th and 14th points of the year on two
assists to help the Crimson past New Hampshire, 4-1, Sept. 25.
After the Crimson jumped to a 2-0 lead at the half, Baskind
assisted on goals by Elizabeth Weisman and Meg Casscells-Hamby in a
three-minute span at the beginning of the second half to put the
game out of reach.

The co-captain, who also serves as co-captain of the lacrosse
team and is an All-Ivy League recipient in both sports, is a
candidate for Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.